The Manchester Mayor was last night dubbed 'Andy backtrack Burnham' by rivals after flip-flopping on policies around trans rights, immigration, Labour 's fiscal rules, Brexit and tax.

The Greater Manchester mayor is Labour's candidate in the contest and is hoping to win the House of Commons seat with a view to going on to challenge Keir Starmer .

After being warned by Sir Tony Blair in a 5,600-word essay not to drag the country back to the 1970s, Andy Burnham has, of course, this evening vowed to do exactly that. In a bid…